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COCO CHANEL

COCO CHANEL. ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE. COCO CHANEL. COCO CHANEL WAS BORN IN AUGUST 19, 1883 AT 4 PM IN SAUMUR, FRANCE. ORPHANAGE.

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COCO CHANEL

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  1. COCO CHANEL ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE

  2. COCO CHANEL • COCO CHANEL WAS BORN IN AUGUST 19, 1883 AT 4 PM IN SAUMUR, FRANCE.

  3. ORPHANAGE • COCO CHANEL’S MOTHER DIED AND HER FATHER LEFT THE FAMILY COCO CHANEL THEN SPENT 7 YEARS OF HER LIFE IN AN ORPHANAGE NAMED THE CATHOLIC MONASTERY OF AUBAZINE. COCO WAS 6 WHEN HER MOTHER DIED WHICH MEANS THAT SHE DIED IN 1889.

  4. MILLINERY SHOP • COCO CHANEL OPENED HER FIRST MILLINERY SHOP IN 1908 UNTIL THE 1920’S. NAMED ‘CHANEL MODES’, 31 RUE CAMBON IN PARIS.

  5. ETIENNE BALSAN AND ARTHUR “BOY” CAPEL • COCO CHANEL WAS ABLE TO AQUIRE PROPERTY AND FINANCIAL BACKUP TO OPEN HER FIRST MILLENERY SHOP. IN 1908. CAPEL TO THE LEFT AND BALSAN TO THE RIGHT

  6. BOARDING SCHOOL • IN 1901, CHANEL WENT TO LIVE AT A BOARDING SCHOOL IN MOULINS AND WORKED IN A TAILOR SHOP. OWNER OF BOARDING SCHOOL.

  7. OTHER DREAMS • COCO CHANEL PURSUED A CAREER AS A SINGER IN HALLS , BUT EVENTUALLY CHANEL REALIZED THAT SHE WASN’T TALENTED ENOUGH TO TURN PROFFESIONAL AT THE AGE OF 18 IN 1901.

  8. BIARRITZ • COCO CHANEL OPENED HER SECOND SHOP AIN 1915 AFTER OPENING HER FIRST IN 1908 IN BAIRRITZ.

  9. CAPEL • ALTHOUGH COCO’S PROFFESIONAL LIFE WAS SOARING , HER RELATIONSHIP WITH CAPEL ENDED IN 1918 WHEN HE MARRIED THE 25-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF BRITISH LORD TO BOOST SOCIETY CONNECTIONS. COCO CHANEL WITH BOY CAPEL IN 1913.

  10. CHANEL NO. 5 • CHANEL NO. 5 WAS BORN IN 1923 WHEN SHE TURNED 40 AND SHE THEN CELEBRATED THE RELEASING OF HER FIRST FRAGRANCE.

  11. MONTE CARLO • DURING THE CHRISTMAS OF 1923, WHIL IN MONTE CARLO, CHANEL FOUND LOVE AGAIN WITH ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN OF UK- THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER.

  12. “LITTLE BLACK DRESS” • IN 1926, CHANEL LAUNCHED ONE OF HER MOST ENDURING CREATIONS- A SIMPLE BUT FIRST “LITTLE BLACK DRESS”.

  13. $1 MILLION • IN 1931 CHANEL ACCEPTED A $1 MILLION OFFER FROM SAMUEL GOLDWYN TO TRAVEL TO HOLLYWOOD TO COSTUME HIS STARLETS THERN RETURNING TO FRANCE TWO YEARS LATER EVEN MORE FAMOUS.

  14. SEPTEMBER 1939 • COCO CHANEL CLOSE HER BUSINESS IN 1939 AS HITLER INVADED POLAND AND BRITAIN AND FRANCE DECLARED WAR SO THE DEPRESSED AND DISILLUSIONED CHANEL ABRUPTLY CLOSED HER BUSINESS.

  15. ARRESTED • WHEN GERMANS OCCUPIED PARIS, CHANEL, THEN 57, BEGAN HER MOST CONTROVERSAIL RELATIONSHIP- WITH THE NAZI OFFICER HANS GUNTHER VON DINCKLAGE. IN 1944 CHANEL WAS ARRESTED AND ACCUSED OF COLLABERATING WITH THE FLEE OF GUNTHER, BUT THEN WAS RELEASED THREE HOURS LATER.

  16. NEW COLLECTION • IN 1954 CHANEL WAS APPALLED TO THE RETURN OF CONSTRUCTIVE FASHION, CHANEL THEN 70, BEGAN WORKING ON A NEW COLLECTION- AND REOPENED 31 RUE CAMBON IN 1954.

  17. “OPEN THE WINDOW!” • IT WAS SUNDAY- JANUARY 10, 1971- WHEN CHANEL WENT TO BED FEELING TIRED. THEN HER MAID HEARD HER CRY OUT- “ I CAN’T BREATH, OPEN THE WINDOW!”-RUSHED TO THE ROOM TO FIND A WEAKENED CHANEL AND HER FACE BATHED IN TEARS. LUCID UNTIL THE END, HER LAST WORDS WERE, “YOU SEE, THIS IS HOW YOU DIE.” SHE WAS 87.

  18. AFTER LIFE • AFTER CHANEL DIED THE HOUSE OF CHANEL WAS LOOKED AFTER BY YVONNE DUDEL, JEAN CAZAUBON AND PHILIPPE GULBOURGE. PIERRE WETHELMER WHO HAD MANUFACTURED NO. 5 FOR COCO CHANEL, HAD BOUGHT THE HOUSE. HIS GRANDSON ALAIN WERTHEIMER, TOOK OVER IN 1974 WHEN HE WAS 25.

  19. TIME MAGAZINE • COCO CHANEL WAS THE ONLY ONE IN THE FASHION FIELD TO BE NAMED IN TIME MAGAZINE. ON JUNE 8TH ,1998

  20. THE MOVIE • COCO CHANEL IS STILL REMEMBERED AS AN AMAZING WOMAN AND WE SEE THAT IN THE MOST RECENT EVENT HELD FOR HER, THE SHOWING OF THE MOVIE BASED ON HER LIFE, COCO CHANEL.THE MOVIE WAS RELEASED IN JULY 19, 2008!

  21. WORKS CITED • http://scandalouswoman.blogspot.com/2009/08/chanel-early-years.html • GOOGLE IMAGES • http://www.lycos.com/info/chanel--coco-chanel.html

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